Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.

God multiplies intelligence, which communicates itself, like fire, ad infinitum. Light a thousand torches at one touch, the flame remains always the same.

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence.

In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition.

One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty.